Edouard

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.dwaʁ/ === Proper noun === Edouard m a male given name, a typographical variant of Édouard ==== Usage notes ==== In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics. == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French Edward, from Old English Ēadweard, from Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu, from Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz. === Proper noun === Edouard a male given name ==== Descendants ==== French: Édouard, Edouard→ German: Eduard